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PAK Taliban claim 39 Indians are alive
All the 39 Indians who were captured by the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) at Mosul in Iraq in June are supposed to be alive. A senior Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) operative gave this information to The Sunday Guardian on Saturday, after confirming the same with an IS commander in Iraq. This newspaper was trying to find out the whereabouts of the 39 Indians from the IS directly and then through sources in TTP and other jihadi organisations based along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The TTP source spoke to the IS leadership in Iraq twice on Saturday and on both occasions was told that the Indians were still alive and in their captivity. The TTP operative, who relayed the news to The Sunday Guardian, has requested anonymity.
The information provided, however, could not be verified independently as this newspaper is yet to find a way to speak to the top leadership of the IS to confirm the well being of the Indians.
The TTP was among the first Pakistani terrorist organisations to declare its allegiance to the IS, asking all other terror groups to join hands to fight the "infidels". Security agencies said that the TTP, which wields considerable influence in the region, has already been proscribed by both the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
According to sources in other jihadi organisations sympathetic to the IS, the recent US-led air strikes on the IS have made the IS' top leadership become very careful while venturing out in the open. Even IS "spokesperson" Shaykh Mohammad Al Adnani, one of the most visible faces of the IS has apparently gone underground.
According to sources, the top IS leadership, which liberally used the internet to spread its message in its early days, is now reluctant to leave too much of its social footprint online because of "security reasons".
On Friday, Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, while making a statement in Parliament stated that while the government did not have any concrete proof that the 39 Indian nationals were alive, but it also did not have any evidence that they were dead.
This newspaper had earlier done a report on how the Indian captives were under the custody of IS operatives who specifically deal with prisoners. An IS commander, with whom this newspaper interacted with last week, had stated that apart from the top leadership of the IS, none of the other IS personnel were allowed to interact with the various prisoners.
The 39 Indian men, alongwith one more worker who later managed to escape, were working on a construction site near Mosul when they were abducted, just days before the IS abducted the nurses who were from Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The nurses were released.
Incidentally, the IS and Al Qaeda are supposed to be fighting a "turf war" to control the jihadi space in Pakistan, say sources.
All the 39 Indians who were captured by the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) at Mosul in Iraq in June are supposed to be alive. A senior Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) operative gave this information to The Sunday Guardian on Saturday, after confirming the same with an IS commander in Iraq. This newspaper was trying to find out the whereabouts of the 39 Indians from the IS directly and then through sources in TTP and other jihadi organisations based along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The TTP source spoke to the IS leadership in Iraq twice on Saturday and on both occasions was told that the Indians were still alive and in their captivity. The TTP operative, who relayed the news to The Sunday Guardian, has requested anonymity.
The information provided, however, could not be verified independently as this newspaper is yet to find a way to speak to the top leadership of the IS to confirm the well being of the Indians.
The TTP was among the first Pakistani terrorist organisations to declare its allegiance to the IS, asking all other terror groups to join hands to fight the "infidels". Security agencies said that the TTP, which wields considerable influence in the region, has already been proscribed by both the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
According to sources in other jihadi organisations sympathetic to the IS, the recent US-led air strikes on the IS have made the IS' top leadership become very careful while venturing out in the open. Even IS "spokesperson" Shaykh Mohammad Al Adnani, one of the most visible faces of the IS has apparently gone underground.
According to sources, the top IS leadership, which liberally used the internet to spread its message in its early days, is now reluctant to leave too much of its social footprint online because of "security reasons".
On Friday, Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, while making a statement in Parliament stated that while the government did not have any concrete proof that the 39 Indian nationals were alive, but it also did not have any evidence that they were dead.
This newspaper had earlier done a report on how the Indian captives were under the custody of IS operatives who specifically deal with prisoners. An IS commander, with whom this newspaper interacted with last week, had stated that apart from the top leadership of the IS, none of the other IS personnel were allowed to interact with the various prisoners.
The 39 Indian men, alongwith one more worker who later managed to escape, were working on a construction site near Mosul when they were abducted, just days before the IS abducted the nurses who were from Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The nurses were released.
Incidentally, the IS and Al Qaeda are supposed to be fighting a "turf war" to control the jihadi space in Pakistan, say sources.
